But the post-mid-century nostalgia fire, first fanned a couple years back by Patti Smith’s intoxicating memoir “Just Kids,” is now in full burn on the bookshelves. A few new novels are adding fuel, suggesting that we’ll continue to turn our collective attention – at least on the literary end of things – to the 1960s and 70s.

Perhaps the strongest case comes from Rachel Kushner, a National Book Award-nominated author whose new title, “The Flame Throwers,” follows an over-her-head aspiring artist who in 1975 moves from Reno to New York, where she takes up with Warhol Factory kids, subversive leftist activists and sexually-adventurous artists.Read more…

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